Carry me caravan take me away
Take me to portugal, take me to spain
Andalusia with fields full of grain
I have to see you again and again
Take me, spanish caravan
Yes, I know you can
Trade winds find galleons lost in the sea
I know where treasure is waiting for me
Silver and gold in the mountains of spain
I have to see you again and again
Take me, spanish caravan
Yes, I know you can
(The Doors recorded Spanish Caravan in 1968 for their album Waiting for the Sun)
The Lankadeepa reports that the President of Sri Lanka, by all accounts a good Buddhist, has demanded a ban on accessing X-rated movies via net-cafes. Net cafes is the cheapest and the easiest means by which the people here access and consume pornography. It also remains the “highest hit” genre of the internet – in short, the most commodified, consumed and the most popular selling item online.
In the commonsensical world, porn is mass-entertainment. It has no age divide, nor any ethnicized, gendered or regionalized limits. Net cafes have been the means by which the masses who cannot have the luxury of an internet package usually enter the world of XXX for a quiet smoke. So, a curtailing of X in local net cafes would be to deprive the lower-middle class, low-income, “cannot affords” their consumer-right to entertainment.
No more X-rated movies at Internet Cafes! I mean, what’s wrong with X-rated stuff, if the person who accesses them wants to access them? Why should anyone’s cock be tickled just because there are people who prefer to be entertained by pornography?
Of course, this ban privileges X rated entertainment as a class-property within our socio-economic frame. Cos it is “those who cannot” afford that go to the net café for porn movies. Those turds who can, need not bother. They can download the whole series to their hard disks via ADSL and all that jazz. It is the lower rungs that get hit, as most times. While the ban goes outside the little net cafe, Mr. President can jerk off in front of his PC in his AC room. So can his son/s and brothers, the cabinet and any other with the “means”.
Fuck thee, Mr. President. Who the fuck are you to “order” a ban on net-café porn? 68.6% of the people who voted for you access porn and derive satisfaction out of X-rated entertainment. How dare you censor entertainment that doesn’t kill anyone or cause any health hazards to the consumer? Porn never hit a man to concussions or broke his rib cage after being carried away in an unregistered Hiace van.
What next, then, in this fucking bid to create some day-dreamer’s utopian – “that thing that never was” – Dhammadhveepa: well what next, then, provided you get through this one –
You ban masturbation? Well, that’s 98% of us, dude (in the census).
Ban extra-marital affairs? Give the sack to 75.8% of the people here.
What – No sex on poya days? No flirting? No kunuharupa anymore? What, you power-fucked moron?
The world wide web is popularly referred to as the “ultimate democracy”. Well, now we know why.
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